Every morning at half past six, Ulrike Schlierenzauer dresses for winter, takes her cell phone, a large thermometer and a metal rod. Then she trudges from her lonely hotel at Körbersee at an altitude of 1,675 meters along the winter hiking trail to a snowfield marked with caution tape. Even on days like this, when the trees are only dimly visible in the heavy snowfall, she is outside. In the background is the Juppenspitze at almost two and a half thousand meters, in the other direction is the ski lift, which provides a connection to the Warth-Schröcken ski area and thus to the glamorous ski resorts of Lech, Zürs and St. Anton. What Schlierenzauer does here is important for everyone who lives or wants to relax here: she looks after one of the eight monitored measuring stations of the Vorarlberg avalanche warning service.
Körbersee in Austria: Twelve meters of snow per winter – travel
